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The following publications are still in print and may be purchased at the Western Reserve Historical Society's Library or Museum Store or by mail (an additional fee for shipping).
THE BASIC PAPERS OF GEORGE M. HUMPHREY AS SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY 1953-1957
Edited by Nathaniel R. Howard. 1965. 644 pages. Illus., appendix, index.
Western Reserve Historical Society Publication No. 119
ISBN: 0-911704-03-5 LIST: $24.95
George M. Humphrey, prominent Cleveland businessman, was appointed to the Treasury post by President Dwight D. Eisenhower. His was the last administration to achieve (twice) an actual balance of the massive federal budget. He was also a crusader in the cause of educating people about the nature and possibilities of their federal finances. These selected documents, interlineated with background information and explanations by the editor, include public appearances, talks, formal speeches, testimony before congressional committees, and some articles Humphrey wrote for magazines and newspapers. These are illustrated by photographs and an amusing sample of editorial cartoons which Humphrey collected with enthusiasm. Nathaniel R. Howard, a legend in Cleveland journalism circles, spent 45 years on the staffs of Cleveland's major newspapers.
BORN UNDER THE SIGN OF LIBRA: AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY
By William Mathewson Milliken. 1977. 299 pages. Illus., index.
Western Reserve Historical Society Publication No. 142
ISBN: 0-911704-16-7 LIST: $17.95
Milliken, director of the Cleveland Museum of Art (CMA) from 1930 until 1958, reviews his colorful life including his experiences in New York's social and cultural life during the Mauve Decade while he was on the staff of the Metropolitan Museum of Art through his accomplishment-filled years at CMA during which that institution's stature grew world-wide. He discusses his travels throughout the world, much of which involved the acquisition of treasures for the museum. A unique and unforgettable personality, Milliken has left a memoir filled with humor, insight, and intimate detail.
MAN OF VISION: THE STORY OF LEVI JOHNSON AND HIS ROLE IN THE EARLY HISTORY OF CLEVELAND
By Alexander C. Meakin. 1993. 120 pages, paperback. Illus., index.
Western Reserve Historical Society Publication.
LIST: $13.00
Levi Johnson (1785-1871) played an integral part in Cleveland's maritime history. He was a shipbuilder and navigator, a maritime engineer and contractor, and builder of Cuyahoga County's first court house and jail in 1812 and Cleveland's first lighthouse in 1829. A successful businessman and land owner, Johnson helped to make Cleveland one of the most significant ports on the Great Lakes. Reverend Meakin, a member of the board of trustees of the Great Lakes Historical Society since 1967, is a frequent speaker and writer on local history.
NORTH INTO FREEDOM: THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF JOHN MALVIN, FREE NEGRO, 1795-1880
Edited and Introduction by Allan Peskin. 1966 (reprinted 1996). 93 pages, paperback. Index.
Western Reserve Historical Society Publication No. 183
ISBN: 0-911704-48-5 LIST: $7.95
John Malvin was a free black who left Virginia in 1827 for Ohio where he held a variety of jobs including cook, carpenter, and canal boat captain. He was a Baptist minister, abolitionist, and supporter of public education. Originally published in 1879, this story is one of hard work, a struggle for equality, and a belief in progress. Allan Peskin, professor of history at Cleveland State University, notes in his introduction that Malvin's autobiography mirrors the man: direct, unadorned, dignified, and optimistic.
SIMON PERKINS OF THE WESTERN RESERVE
By Mary Lou Conlin. 1968. 215 pages. Notes, bibliography, index.
Western Reserve Historical Society Publication No. 120
ISBN: 0-911704-05-1 LIST: $15.95
In the course of his productive lifetime, Simon Perkins (1771-1844) was a surveyor, land agent, soldier, canal commissioner, insurance agent, banker, public official, educator, city founder, Indian negotiator, and an extensive land owner and philanthropist. His activities include involvement in the War of 1812, the Erie Land Company, the Ohio Canal, and the founding of the city of Akron. Based on original papers and records, including the extensive Perkins collection at the historical society, this is still the best available account of the Connecticut Land Company and the mode of determining ownership of the land in the Western Reserve. The author, an educator on the Greater Cleveland area, has written on a variety of historical topics.
John D. Rockefeller; The Cleveland Years
By Grace Goulder: $15.95
Cleveland has all but forgotten its most famous citizen, although his name is still attached to parks and buildings as well as welfare, church and education endowments.Cleveland's economic surge forward at the turn of the century was, in great part, a Reflection of the oilman's wizardry. But he left Cleveland after his wife's death, their much-loved home in Forest Hill destroyed by fire and his holdings jeopardized...
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Storyettes: Reminiscences of Frederick Coolidge Crawford: Volume II
By Christopher Johnston. 1994 (second printing).
Illustrated by Bruce Seretta and Dean Bornstein
97 pages. hardcover
List: $24.95 Sale Price: $5.00
Storyettes is a collection of memories profiling Frederick C. Crawford. Enjoy this first person encounter of his life. Fans enjoyed Volume I so much that it sold out six months after it was published.
EUCLID TOWNSHIP, 1796-1801; PROTEST IN THE WESTERN RESERVE
By Roy Larick and Craig Semsel 2003.
111 pages, paperback, Illus.
Published by the Euclid Historical Society and WRHS.
ISBN: 0-911704-56-6 List: $19.95
Roy Larick and Craig Semsel team up to tell a story of our region’s early years from the perspective of the men and women who laid it out for settlement. The story is told using surveyors’ personal journals and field notes as well as Connecticut Land Company meeting minutes.
IDENTITY, CONFLICT AND COOPERATION; CENTRAL EUROPEANS IN CLEVELAND, 1850-1930
Edited by David C. Hammack, Diane L,. Grabowski and John J. Grabowski
2002. 364 pages, paperback
ISBN: 0-911704-55-8 List: $15.95
This volume studies six groups of immigrants – from Croatia, the Czechlands, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia and Slovenia – in Cleveland, OH during the period 1870 to 1920. Based on research in many previously unexamined sources in many languages these studies provide the most detailed discussions yet written of these ethnic communities in Cleveland.
HISTORY OF THE SLOVAKS IN CLEVELAND AND LAKEWOOD
By Jan Pankuch Translated from Slovak by Rasto Gallo
2001. 278 pages, hardbound.
A joint publication of the Czechoslovak Genealogical Society International & WRHS
ISBN: 0-9651932-1-7 List: $23.95
Jan Pankuch was a prominent publisher and activist within the Slovak community of Cleveland, Ohio. He settled in the area in the late nineteenth century and was a part of many local, national, and international events that marked the history of the Slovak community. His experiences were a focus of the book he published in 1930. Now translated this book provides valuable insights into the Slovak immigrant community in Cleveland.
MEMORIAL RECORD OF THE COUNTY OF CUYAHOGA AND CITY OF CLEVELAND
1988, originally published 1894
List: $65.00
CLEVELAND: A HISTORY IN MOTION
By John J. & Diane Ewart Grabowski
2000. 600 pages, hardbound
ISBN: 1-886483-38-8 List: $49.95
As an industrial city Cleveland has shaped and been shaped by transportation. This book examines Cleveland’s history by focusing on the role of transportation in the city’s origin, growth, and development. It also tells the story of the people whose dreams, work and perseverance put Cleveland’s history in motion and transformed a spot on a map into a community.
CLEVELAND: VILLAGE TO METROPOLIS
By Edmund H. Chapman
1964, reprint 1998. 166 pages, softbound
ISBN: 0-911704-29-9 List: $19.95 Sale Price: $5.00
Chapman has crafted an insightful review of the growth and development of Cleveland from 1796 to 1875. Originally published in 1964, this is a reprint of the second edition.
THE CAMP WISE STORY 1907-1988
By Albert M. Brown, edited by David B. Guralnik and Judah Rubinstein. 1989.176 pages, paperback. Illus., index.
Jewish Community Federation of Cleveland and WRHS
ISBN: 0-962478-70-9 LIST: $15.95 Sale Price: $5.00
Thanks to a generous gift from Cleveland businessman and philanthropist Samuel D. Wise in 1907, Camp Wise was established as a simple fresh-air camp for children from primarily Jewish immigrant families. With support and leadership provided by many distinguished Clevelanders, the camp developed into a highly-organized camping facility and expanded to make the world of nature a bright part of the lives of thousands of children. The author, Al Brown, whose field was social work, writes from a unique perspective given that he has been associated with the camp since his first camping experience there in 1910! In addition to Brown's memoir, this book includes the recollections of several others who experienced the camp and a chronicle of important events in the camp's history, 1907-1983.
CLEVELAND AND ITS GERMANS [1897-98 EDITION]
Translated from German by Steven Rowan. 1998 249 pages, hardbound. Index.
Western Reserve Historical Society Publication No. 184
ISBN: 0-911704-49-3. LIST: $17.95
CLEVELAND AND ITS GERMANS [1907 EDITION]
Translated from German by Steven Rowan. 1998 187 pages, hardbound. Index.
Western Reserve Historical Society Publication No. 185
ISBN: 0-911704-50-7. LIST: $14.95
Cleveland und Sein Deutschthum was inititally published in German in two editions (1897-98 and 1907), a time when the city had over 40,000 residents of German birth. Scholars fluent in German have long valued the original editions because they contain important information about the Cleveland German community along with biographical sketches of more than 380 individuals of German birth or ancestry. As such, the books are a veritable Who's Who of the local German community at the turn of the century and a chronicle of the history of one of the city's most important ethnic groups.
GOLDEN WHEELS: THE STORY OF THE AUTOMOBILES MADE IN CLEVELAND AND NORTHEASTERN OHIO 1892-1932
By Richard Wager. 1981(second edition, 1986). 288 pages. Illus., bibliography, index.
Western Reserve Historical Society Publication No. 135
ISBN: 0-939738-79-1 LIST: $24.95
During the first two decades of the automobile industry, Cleveland was its center. Wager recounts those glory years in this meticulously-researched and detailed account of the 115 automobiles made in Cleveland and its surrounding areas during the golden age of motoring, 1892-1932. Even after the industry in Detroit outpaced that in Cleveland, the latter continued to be the manufacturing hub for the elegant and high-priced Winton, White, Peerless, and the famous electrics like Baker and Rauch & Lang; and there was Packard, in nearby Warren, Ohio. The author, a reporter and editor for the Cleveland Plain Dealer for 35 years, began writing about antique cars in 1946.
MEMORIES OF A FORTY-EIGHTER: SKETCHES FROM THE GERMAN-AMERICAN PERIOD OF STORM AND STRESS IN THE 1850s
By Jacob Mueller; translated by Steven Rowan. 1996. 244 pages. Frontispiece, index.
Western Reserve Historical Society Publication No. 181
ISBN: 0-911704-46-9 LIST: $18.95 Sale Price: $5.00
The original edition, Aus den Erinnerungen eines Achtundvierzigers, was printed in Cleveland in 1896. It is an entertaining and informative portrait of immigrant life in the mid-nineteenth century. Mueller (1822-1905), after settling in Cleveland, was a newspaper editor and publisher, antislavery advocate, and civic leader who served as Lt. Governor of Ohio (1872-74) and U. S. Consul to Frankfort (1885-1889). The only claim I make for my sketches...is that they are true and faithful to nature, and that they give a concise portrayal...of the deeds and efforts of the German population during the fifties, until the outbreak of the Civil War.&emdash;Jacob Mueller
STRENGTH ENOUGH: A PHOTOGRAPHIC DOCUMENT OF THE WORKING MEN AND WOMEN OF CLEVELAND
By Robert E. Dorksen. 1980. [110] pages, paperback. 102 illus.
Western Reserve Historical Society Publication No. 154
ISBN: 0-911704-25-6 LIST: $10.95
This volume consists of 102 photographs by Cleveland Plain Dealer photographer Robert Dorksen documenting the life of working men and women in Cleveland. Dorksen photographed union members in factories, offices, printing and sewing plants, graveyards, recording studios, and many other places of employment. Originally an exhibition sponsored by the United Labor Agency's Cultural Arts Committee, this book is a testament to all those who work in twentieth century America.
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THE JONATHAN HALE FARM: A CHRONICLE OF THE CUYAHOGA VALLEY
By John J. Horton. 1961 (third edition, 1990). 202 pages, paperback. Illus., notes, bibliography.
Western Reserve Historical Society Publication No. 116
ISBN: 0-911704-02-7 LIST: $12.95
Horton tells the fascinating story of the Hale Farm and its inhabitants from the time it was settled in 1810 by Jonathan Hale of Glastonbury, Connecticut, through several generations ending shortly after the farm was willed to the Western Reserve Historical Society in 1956. Based on letters, diaries, and other family papers, this account of one family and one house is also an excellent survey of the history and settlement of the Western Reserve of Connecticut. The author, a Harvard-trained historian, was a research specialist on the staff of WRHS.
Symbols and Aspirations 1776-1976
By William Vincent Shannon, E. McClung Fleming, George W. Knepper, John Maass, and James Morton Smith. 1976
123 pages. hardcover
List: $5.00 Sale Price: $1.00
This publication is a series of lectures delivered in 1976 to commemorate the bicentennial of the Unites States. The lectures were in cooperation with the history departments of numerous colleges and universities.
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BUY OHIO: ADVERTISING THE PRODUCTS OF CLEVELAND AND OHIO 1840-1940
By Bernice Tolbert. 1980. 35 pages, paperback. Illus.
Western Reserve Historical Society Publication No. 156
ISBN: 0-911704-27-2 LIST: $5.95
This volume examines the first hundred years of active advertising in Ohio, with special emphasis on Cleveland, where one of the country's first advertising clubs was founded in 1901. Cleveland was also the home of many of the businesses and industries that relied heavily on advertising, such as retail clothing, food, sewing machine, and, of course, the automobile. Tolbert was curator of the Sanford House, a property operated by WRHS and site of the Buy Ohio exhibition in 1980.
IT MUST BE HEARD: A SURVEY OF THE MUSICAL LIFE OF CLEVELAND, 1836-1918
By J. Heywood Alexander. 1981. 50 pages, paperback. Illus., notes, bibliography.
Western Reserve Historical Society Publication No. 158
ISBN: 0-911704-28-0 LIST: $8.95 Sale Price: $1.00
Cleveland's rich musical tradition is reflected in the wide range of choirs, bands, neighborhood and semi-professional ensembles, schools and institutes, publishers, and musicians that are its history. Among the legendary figures to affect the musical scene are Emil Ring, Alfred Arthur, N. Coe Stewart, Christiaan Timmner, Johann H. Beck, and Nikolai Sokoloff. A wide variety of sources on the individuals, their organized efforts, and their music was mined by Alexander in preparing this publication that accompanied a special WRHS exhibition, It Must Be Heard, in 1980. The author, who taught music at Cleveland State University, was for many years musical director for the Church of the Covenant.
COSTUME
Intro. by Barry Wayne Bradley. 1986. 35 pages, paperback. Illus. (color).
Western Reserve Historical Society Publication No. 166
ISBN: 0-911704-35-3 LIST: $16.95
This is the catalog to the exhibition that opened the historical society's Chisholm Halle Costume Wing in 1986. It features elegant examples of women's attire from 1810 to 1968 selected from the historical society's collection by Barry Bradley, curator of costume, to support the notion that dress is a decorative art form.
IF ELECTED. . .: PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN MEMORABILIA ILLUSTRATED FROM THE COLLECTIONS OF THE WESTERN RESERVE HISTORICAL SOCIETY
24 pages, paperback. Illus. (color), bibliography.
Western Reserve Historical Society Publication No. 171
ISBN: 0-911704-41-8 LIST: $9.95 Sale Price: $1.00
The eight presidential campaigns involving candidates from Ohio are featured in this booklet. The essay describing the origins of campaign items and their manufacture and use in presidential campaigns was written by Joseph G. Brown of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, one of the premier collectors of political campaign memorabilia.
GALANOS
WRHS staff. 1996. 146 [+8] pages, paperback. Illus. (all color)
Western Reserve Historical Society Publication No. 182
ISBN: 0-911704-47-7 LIST: $45.00 Sale Price: $33.75
This is the catalog to a retrospective exhibition of the work of couturier James Galanos held at the Western Reserve Historical Society, Chisholm Halle Costume Wing, in 1996, and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in 1997. It consists primarily of illustrations of creations by Galanos between 1952 and 1993. Curator of the exhibition was Barry Bradley, curator of costume for the historical society.
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With Panache: Fans from the collection of Mrs. Walter G. Nord
By The Western Reserve Historical Society
List: $5.00 Sale Price: $1.00
This is a photograph collection of folding fans in the Renaissance from 1760-1890. Fans collected and originated from both England and France.
A GUIDE TO THE SHAKER MANUSCRIPTS IN THE LIBRARY OF THE WESTERN RESERVE HISTORICAL SOCIETY, WITH AN INVENTORY OF ITS SHAKER PHOTOGRAPHS
Compiled by Kermit J. Pike. 1974. 159 pages, paperback.
Western Reserve Historical Society Publication No. 131
ISBN: 0-911704-10-8 LIST: $10.00
This guide describes the bulk of surviving manuscripts of this religious communal society founded in 1774. The material was gathered primarily between 1911 and 1920 by Wallace H. Cathcart, director of the Western Reserve Historical Society. This unparalleled collection reflects much of the history of each of the nineteen major Shaker communities in the northeastern United States (including the colony of North Union located just east of Cleveland from 1822 to 1889). It includes both loose items and bound volumes of correspondence, diaries and journals, financial records, music and hymnals, and inspired writings and drawings. Pike, formerly curator of manuscripts for the historical society, is currently its Chief Operating Officer.
A GUIDE TO THE JEWISH HISTORY SOURCES IN THE HISTORY LIBRARY OF THE WESTERN RESERVE HISTORICAL SOCIETY
Compiled by John J. Grabowski and Lucinda K. Arnold; edited by Kermit J. Pike. 1983. 91 pages, paperback. Appendices.
Western Reserve Historical Society Publication No. 160.
ISBN: 0-911704-30-2 LIST: $9.95
The guide includes descriptions of more than 100 archival and photograph collections of individuals, businesses, and institutions that have played a role in the growth and development of Cleveland's Jewish community. One appendix describes photographs, including picture groups, portraits, and events. A second appendix describes printed materials, including books, pamphlets, theses, newspapers, and periodicals. The compilers are WRHS staff members.
A GUIDE TO THE MAJOR MANUSCRIPT COLLECTIONS ACCESSIONED AND PROCESSED BY THE LIBRARY OF THE WESTERN RESERVE HISTORICAL SOCIETY SINCE 1970
Compiled by Kermit J. Pike. 1987. 91 pages, paperback. Appendices.
Western Reserve Historical Society Publication No. 164
ISBN: 0-911704-33-7 LIST: $9.95
This useful guide supplements the first manuscripts guide issued by WRHS in 1972. It begins with a brief description of each of 457 collections in order of accession. The appendices consist of lists of these collections in alphabetical and chronological order and by selected subject.
AN INTRODUCTION TO THE FRANCES PAYNE BOLTON PAPERS
WRHS staff. 1989. 30 pages, paperback. Illus.
Western Reserve Historical Society Publication No. 175
ISBN: 0-911704-43-4 LIST: $7.95
This guide describes the congressional papers of Frances Payne Bolton, first woman from Ohio to be elected to the U.S. House of Representatives (1940-1969). Mrs. Bolton, born into a wealthy and prominent Cleveland family, made important contributions in many fields with which women were not generally associated during her lifetime. She was particularly active in politics and world affairs, education, nursing, communications and philanthropy. This guide also includes descriptions of audio-visual materials, records of the Payne Fund, and the papers of her husband Chester Castle Bolton, all of which are in the WRHS Library.
THE FREDERICK C. CRAWFORD COLLECTION: THE AUTOMOBILE IN AMERICAN CULTURE
WRHS staff. 1991. 32 pages, paperback. Ills (some color).
Western Reserve Historical Society Publication No. 179
ISBN: 0-911704-45-0 LIST: $9.95
The focus of this book is the influence of automobiles on American culture. Its purpose is to give the reader a better understanding of the relationship that cars had with the people who developed, built, and used them. Dedicated to Frederick C. Crawford, who established the auto/aviation museum that bears his name, this book also contains a list of automobiles, dating from 1897 to 1984, in the Crawford Collection of the Western Reserve Historical Society.
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SEVEN MAKING HISTORY: A MAYORAL RETROSPECTIVE
1990. 51 pages, paperback. Illus.
Published by the League of Women Voters and WRHS
LIST: $7.95
Under the sponsorship of the League of Women Voters of Cleveland, former mayors were invited to a special program at Cleveland City Hall to speak on their terms in office. This book, which commemorates that occasion, includes the remarks and a biographical sketch of each mayor, including Anthony J. Celebrezze, Ralph S. Locher, Carl B. Stokes, Ralph J. Perk, and Dennis Kucinich.
REV: 4/98
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